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  • An artist's rendering shows one of NASA's twin Voyager spacecrafts, which launched in 1977.
    A Final Voyage, Into The Wild Black Yonder
    Some 35 years after leaving Earth, scientists say, one of two Voyager probes may be nearing the solar system's absolute edge — farther than anything ever built by humans — and heading for the terra incognita of interstellar space.
  • Senator Sees Goodell, Calls Off Bounty Hearing Planned in DC
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A ranking U.S. senator is calling off a proposed hearing on bounties in professional sports. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says he's…
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    fun. On World Cafe
    Some Nights, fun.'s latest album, is a worldwide left-field success, and "We Are Young" became one of 2012's signature anthems. Hear an archived performance and interview with WXPN, recorded during the group's ride to the top of the charts.
  • Chinese soldiers guard the perimeter of the Jiuquan space base, in north China's Gansu province on June 15, the eve of the launch of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft. China has said it is committed to putting an astronaut on the moon by 2020.
    Foreign Policy: Red Moon Rising
    Hardly anyone in the U.S. took Newt Gingrich seriously when he suggested committing American resources to a moon colony, but Foreign Policy's John Hickman says across the Pacific they don't think the idea's so outlandish.
  • Biden: Romney Out of Touch With 'Ordinary' People
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden tells a gathering of black journalists that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's economic platform…
  • Southern Baptists: Gay Rights Not Civil Rights
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day after electing their first African-American president , Southern Baptists have passed a resolution opposing the idea that…
  • <p>This is Chris Smither's 12th appearance on <em>Mountain Stage</em>.</p>
    Chris Smither On Mountain Stage
    A modern master of acoustic folk blues, Smither is in his fourth decade as a performer. He makes his 12th appearance on Mountain Stage here.
  • Ruth Salvaggio's New Book About the History of Poetry in New Orleans
    Today on The Sound of Books with Fred Kasten, the new book from New Orleans native and University of North Carolina English and American Studies professor…
  • Title IX Turns 40, But Has The Field Leveled?
    Title IX was the landmark legislation that required most educational institutions to offer equal opportunities for girls and boys. It changed history and opened up the floodgates to basketball courts, soccer fields and classrooms to women all over the country. Host Michel Martin speaks with three experts about what more needs to be done.
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She was previously the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
    The Impossible Juggling Act: Motherhood And Work
    Anne-Marie Slaughter left her position as the State Department's director of policy planning to spend more time with her children. Slaughter, now a Princeton professor, details what needs to change both in workplaces and in society to create equal opportunities for all working women.
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